Tanja Hamester
BOUNCERS | PROTECTORPROTEST
a sculptural and performative social practice for FLINTA* about protection
by Tanja Hamester and Tita Tummillo
Bari, Italy 2023
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Participants of the workshop wearing their BOUNCERS sculptures during the parade in Bari.
Photos by Pamela Diamante and Nico Murri
BOUNCERS PROTECTOR-
PROTEST
BOUNCERS - Protectorprotest is a nomadic safe space for transgenerational and intersectional dialogue and production among FLINTA*, addressing the theme of protection from multiple perspectives.
From what and from whom do we, FLINTA*, protect ourselves? What kind of safety are we thinking of? The one we choose or the one produced by the patriarchal system?
Tanja Hamester and Tita Tummillo propose a horizontal artistic process, a nomadic space that reconfigures the concepts of safety and protection, connecting the private and the political of subjectivities belonging to different cultural contexts.
BOUNCERS becomes a collective translation of these concepts into protective sculptures, offering new possibilities for experience and accessibility as well as an opportunity to act in a public parade with one's own sculpture, a manifesto of one's sense of being protected.
The project took the form of multi-day sculptural and performative workshop and public parade in Bari, Italy.
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